Category Archives: The Culture

Bush did it: Fake but accurate

Posted on September 25, 2014 | 1 comment

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson (whose updating of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos—including a shamelessly inaccurate plug for global warming—was so bad I stopped watching it after two episodes) is an atheist who apparently likes to make up fake quotes about believers, particularly former president Bush II.

Now Wikipedia is covering for Tyson: “Despite the fact that no evidence exists that Bush ever said ‘Our God is the God who named the stars’ shortly after 9/11 as a way of segregating Christians and Jews from Muslims, under no circumstances will Wikipedia allow that site to note that Tyson’s fabricated quote is obviously fake and non-existent.”

I still like Wikipedia as a resource, if not the bearer of absolute truth. Even the Encyclopedia Britannica has its quirks. Nor should Tyson, the latest black darling of the New York Progressives, be held to an absolute standard—although he is supposed to be a scientist before he’s a politico and he’s now failed that standard twice that I know of.

But trotting out the tired Bush and Christianity bashing in the same breath, apparently to show his fans he’s a doctrinaire Democrat, is twice too much for me.

Tyson, get thee behind me!

Via The Federalist.

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Rule 5: News Babes

Posted on September 24, 2014 | 1 comment

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PJTV’s Michele Fields, who has previously given a cool Econ 101 talk on how Obozo’s favorite president, FDR, prolonged the Great Depression. Just like the O is doing now with his own version of big spending, big taxes and big regulations.

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RFK’s Jr. wants to jail warming deniers

Posted on September 23, 2014 | 3 comments

Like father like son?

Daddy is infamous for ordering the FBI wiretapping of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from 1963-66, supposedly because two of Dr. King’s advisers were members of the American Communist Party — which wasn’t illegal then and isn’t now.

Now sonny, a marcher in Sunday’s socialist meetup in NYC at the Dictator’s Club, aka the UN, says Americans who dispute global warming are guilty of “a criminal offense — and they ought to be serving time for it.”

Just a chip off the old Democrat’s block. Fortunately for us, without Daddy’s power. Dream on, Junior, dream on.

Via Instapundit.

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Dr. Obamacare says we should die at 75

Posted on September 22, 2014 | 3 comments

Back in March, I reached the Psalmist’s milestone of three score and ten. By Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel’s measure, I should be ready for the grave in about 3.5 years. Or, should I say, the urn—as Mrs. Charm and I have opted for cremation and our (pre-purchased) cemetery plot so specifies.

Dr. Obamacare, as EE has been called for his contribution to that fiasco, says (Democrats always say) he will shuffle off his mortal coil at age 75 and it would be wise for the rest of us to do so as well—by such methods as declining to get flu shots. For the good of the country, you understand, the metaphorical “village” as another Democrat, a shrill harridan brimming with advice she never takes herself, has it.

I’ll believe Dr. O. when he (who is only 58) actually pulls the plug. The Democrat climate warriors, led by Al Bore, are full of advice for others while doing exactly nothing to mitigate supposed “climate change” themselves. Likewise, I suspect, with Dr. Obamacare’s advice. It is for thee and me, not for he.

As for me, I will (as always) put my fate in the metaphorical hands of G-d. Dr. Obamacare, quiet frankly, may go to hell. Whether at 75 or later is out of his hands, unless he plans to suicide. Easy to say, hard to do.

Via PJMedia.

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Robbery at badgepoint

Posted on September 18, 2014 | Comments Off on Robbery at badgepoint

The Badge Gang never quits. Government-approved theft is their latest thing according to the Canadian Boadcasting Corporation which has issued a warning to Canadians not to carry any more cash into the U.S. than they’d care to lose to a cop:

“There’s a shakedown going on in the U.S., and the perps are in uniform. Across America, law enforcement officers — from federal agents to state troopers right down to sheriffs in one-street backwaters — are operating a vast, co-ordinated scheme to grab as much of the public’s cash as they can; ‘hand over fist,’ to use the words of one police trainer.”

It’s the assets confiscation racket of the drug warriors, apparently now being used in some states without charges or convictions. Texas is about average on assets confiscation abuse, but, to my knowledge, there’s no cash seizures without charges or convictions going on. If they ever do happen here, there’s going to be hell to pay.

Via Instapundit.

UPDATE:  Don’t steal, the government hates competition.

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Rule 5: Brooke Max

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Posted on September 17, 2014 in Obsessions, Rule 5, The Culture

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The Democrat Depression, Part Deux

Posted on September 16, 2014 | 1 comment

Wonder why we’re enduring a now 6-year jobless recovery and very likely even worse to come? Part of it, according to a new international tally, is because we are close to the worst among industrialized nations in our tax burden on business: 32nd out of 34. Only better than Portugal and France.

“Since capital is mobile and businesses can choose where to invest, tax rates that are too high ‘drive investment elsewhere, leading to slower economic growth,’ as the Tax Foundation puts it.” Simple, really. Econ 101.

But don’t expect the Democrats to admit it. They love to tax. At least you can enjoy their rhetoric, if you don’t look behind the curtain. They’ll babble on about income inequality and how they’re going to punish those nasty one percenters who’re taking their investments elsewhere.

Feel better? They hope so. While always keeping their hands out under the table.

Via WSJ.

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